{"id":384822,"date":"2026-04-10T10:15:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T10:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/384822\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T10:15:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T10:15:27","slug":"cost-of-living-in-upward-spiral-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/384822\/","title":{"rendered":"Cost of living in upward spiral in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/us-israel-war-with-iran\/t-76168615\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">United States, Israel and Iran<\/a>\u00a0 may have announced a two-week ceasefire, but for farmers and consumers in <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/south-africa\/t-46830055\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">South Africa<\/a> , from the field to the shop, there are fears the economic fallout from high fuel and fertilizer prices could linger much longer.<\/p>\n<p>The majority of food and goods move by road and only in the last week of March, diesel experienced a 40% price hike and petrol a 15% hike.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The United States, Israel and Iran\u00a0 may have announced a two-week ceasefire, but for farmers and consumers in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384823,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[114,184,85,46],"class_list":["post-384822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}